The year of the demonstrator
By TERRY WILLIAMSON Kansan Staff Writer
This has been the year that was, and it will probably be thought of in the future, as a year of demonstrators seeking their own thing. Groups locally and nationally sought a reaction through various means, some demanding and violent and others humorous.
The semester's "radical activities" at KU began Feb. 17 when approximately 200 students marched to protest the action against the "Chicago 10." The march began on campus and ended at the Douglas County Courthouse with some destructive actions taken, including the painting of Jimmy Green's statue, painting of an emblem on the courthouse and a broken window.
Similar demonstrations protesting the Chicago riot conspiracy trial occurred throughout the nation. A thousand demonstrators charged the U.S. courthouse in Seattle Feb. 17 throwing rocks, tear gas and paint filled balloons.
The KU Black Student Union (BSU) did its own thing by submitting demands to Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. Feb. 26. The BSU demanded that the following administrative positions be held by blacks by Sept. 1: campus provost, associate dean of faculties, associate dean of
student affairs, associate dean of men, associate dean of women, associate director of admissions and associate director of financial aid.
Other demands included that 10 per cent of the freshman class be black and within two years that 10 per cent of faculty members be black.
A BSU statement said, "Our position is clear. We have requested no more than our dignity permits for those things which this place should have. We have been done a great wrong and now demand only that it be righted."
Chalmers announced in a statement that the demands could not be considered reasonable, legal or attainable as short-term goals.
A group which wanted to make sure that blacks in the process of gaining their identity didn't become overly violent established itself at KU. Its name . . . the White Student Union.
Violence stemming from rejection of black demands at the University of New York at Buffalo erupted the same week. The blacks had demanded that a Negro be added to the basketball staff and that blacks be given a greater share of athletic grants-in-aid.
On the humorous side, a radical "leftist" representing the Left-Handed Student Union (LHSU) presented demands
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The Student Mobilization Committee on campus announced one of its short term goals as "to get the body of undecided citizens to think about the validity of the Vietnam war."
Mike Beiriger, Prairie Village freshman, and parade coordinator for the march in Topeka, received a permit from the Topeka police department to march from Second Street and Van Buren Avenue to the south steps of the State House.
Sen. George McGovern, D-South Dakota, comedian Dick Gregory, Sen. Charles Godell, D-New York, and Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. were some of the many celebrities at the march in Washington, D.C.
March 5 to Chalmers. These denounced discrimination against left-handed students.
McGovern said, "We are not here to break a president. We are here to break a war and begin a peace."
One of the arguments for the LHSU demands given by Ernie Bauer, Clay Center senior, was that lefties had been stiffed because books were bound on the left and from first grade to Ph.D. the left-hander is placed in right-handed desks.
Mrs. King said, "We have been told we cannot afford the humiliation of withdrawal. I feel that even less can we afford the humiliation of pursuing a war for ignoble ends."
Beirigar, six months later, said there are "more people with the movement. It looks like something might get accomplished."
Bowman in response to what he thought the importance of the moratorium was said, "I keep asking myself about the importance because it is so crucial."
Robert Lancaster, Air Force ROTC professor, who had spoken at the moratorium said the moratorium gave students a chance to express their opinions.
Lancaster said he often thought the demonstrations were "misdirected" and should have been in support of Nixon's policy when Nixon began pulling troops out of Vietnam. A more positive reaction would have had more effect, he said.
It now appears that these things won't effect Nixon, Bowman said. He said he was frustrated and was no longer participating now in an active way.
Lewis Wolfe, program director of the Lawrence Peace Center,
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said the moratorium gave an "opportunity for a large number of people to stand up and be counted and a chance for public expression of ideas."
The activities this fall are behind the spring activities, Wolfe said. In reference to the moratoriums as a whole, he said, "They all have been worthwhile."
On April 15, the deadline for paying one's income taxes, a nationwide protest on the using of tax dollars to finance the war in Vietnam was launched.
On April 8 at KU a student strike occurred in protest of delay of promotions by the Kansas Board of Regents of Lawrence Velvel, associate professor of law, and Frederic Litto, acting professor of speech and drama. The Chancellor and student leaders pleaded to the students for non-violence. Nonetheless, arson attempts and firebombs were reported on campus and in the community. Tension was heightened also because of the appearance of Abbie Hoffman, member of the Chicago Seven. The day was carried off peacefully though as students combined protest with pleasure.
At several rallies across the country protesters were told not to pay federal telephone taxes and to stage an income tax rebellion.
Actress Jane Fonda urged an estimated 400 demonstrators to "stop giving your bodies for cannon fodder" and to resist the draft.
Although protestors at the April moratoriums were less numerous and as active, police twice dispersed militant crowds on the Berkeley campus of the University of California.
On the KU campus, although no demonstrators were held, anti-war movies and a panel discussion entitled, "Vietnam: U.S. Imperialism" were scheduled.
Others including Pete O'Neil, Kansas City Black Panther's chairman, Welfare Rights Organization representatives and Women Liberation Front representatives spoke at the park.
Lee Weiner of the Chicago Seven spoke at the rally in Parade Park saying, "I am not the revolution; you are, and if you don't know it, you have to learn it."
The Kansas City march, sponsored by the Student Mobilization Committee, began at the Union Station in Kansas City and moved by the Federal and State Buildings to Parade Park.
The main thrust of the demonstration was to emphasize the cost of the war, said Lewis Wolfe, director of the Lawrence Peace Center, though other issues were introduced by speakers. Only a few students from the University of Kansas attended the rally and march.
Demonstrators chanted "Hell no, we won't go" and "Peace Now!" during their march.
At an organizational meeting for the strike, Dave Awbrey Hutchinson senior and former student body president, said it
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That same week tension erupted at Lawrence High School when angry shouting and fighting broke out between black and white students. Lawrence Police and Public Safety Officers were called in.
KU students and the Lawrence community were jolted April 20 when the Kansas Union burned. Snipers, bombings and arson attempts caused a curfew to be imposed in Lawrence for three nights.
Upon the announcement by President Nixon that American troops had entered Cambodia, college students across the nation erupted in protest.
The KU Committee for Alternatives (KUAC) took action to protest this step by sending letters to Chancellor Chalmers asking for a "dav of alternatives."
The major demands asked were that Chalmers and the faculty cancel classes May 8, that Chalmers issue a statement regarding the University's position on the actions of the President and also that the ROTC review not take place on University grounds.
This has been a turbulent semester and many are now questioning what will happen this summer and next fall. Ebert said at the convocation that if Nixon did not change his policies other alternatives would have to be taken for the fall semester. What will the future of the University of Kansas be next fall; only time can determine.
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